Optiv Security has added former Symantec exec Anirban Chakravartti, former SecureWorks CISO Doug Steelman, and former D&H CISO Michael Lines as it focuses on key business areas, including managed services and risk and compliance.

Cybereason has launched its first partner program and named Gregg Henebry its channel chief, part of a push by the company to invest more in the channel as it looks to take on the endpoint security market.

CRN takes a look back through the long line of events – both good and bad – that helped shape the company McAfee is today, and might provide some insight into where the security vendor is heading next.

Legacy security giants Symantec and McAfee are undergoing drastic business changes to better compete in a complex security market littered with hot startups. And for solution providers with the chops to establish themselves as next-generation security providers, the crowded marketplace provides endless opportunities.

Netskope said the funding - which will go towards its product, expanding into web security, and the channel - also comes with a commitment to remaining a standalone CASB vendor, unlike much of its competition.

Twenty of the publicly held channel companies on our watch list saw the price of their stock increase in the third quarter of 2017 while only six recorded stock price declines. See who was up and who was down in the third quarter of 2017.